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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Pfdisk question Date: 24 Jan 1994 19:30:48 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 23 Message-ID: <2i17l8$n7m@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <pomonaCJyLBz.3E3@netcom.com> <2i109d$7qq@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <2i109d$7qq@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>, centauri <centauri@peso.cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote: > > I'm a little confused on setting up with the pfdisk prog...it doesn't > seem to have a setting for BSD (Net or Free). [...] > >Well unless I didn't get you wrong : >2 165 <start> <end> <name> > >Now you should have a new partition of your favorite size. The 165 makes it >a NetBSD-partition. Just to set the record straight, the number 165 is not NetBSD, 386BSD, or FreeBSD specific. The partition ID number is generic to all *BSD operating systems. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me